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Spotify Restores Service After Global Outage Disrupts Logins and Playback

The company has not yet detailed a cause despite declaring service restored.

Overview

  • User-submitted reports on Downdetector peaked at nearly 36,000 in the U.S., with thousands more in the UK, Canada, India and parts of Europe.
  • Spotify acknowledged the disruption on its Status account, investigated login and playback problems, and later posted an “All clear,” pointing users to a community support thread.
  • Roughly 80%–87% of complaints centered on the mobile app, with users citing crashes, persistent loading screens, failed logins and stalled music or podcasts.
  • Incident reports steadily declined by late morning as most users regained access, though some residual issues persisted for a subset of users.
  • Spotify shares fell nearly 2%–3% in morning trading, and the company has not provided a root-cause explanation in initial updates, with Downdetector figures reflecting user-submitted signals.